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We develop a stochastic approximation framework for learning nonlinear operators between infinite-dimensional spaces utilizing general Mercer operator-valued kernels. Our framework encompasses two key classes: (i) compact kernels, which…

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While many problems in machine learning focus on learning mappings between finite-dimensional spaces, scientific applications require approximating mappings between function spaces, i.e., operators. We study the problem of learning…

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We investigate the question of studying spectral clustering in a Hilbert space where the set of points to cluster are drawn i.i.d. according to an unknown probability distribution whose support is a union of compact connected components. We…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-06-22 Ilaria Giulini

Neural operators have achieved significant success in modern scientific computing due to their flexibility and strong generalization capabilities. Existing models, however, primarily rely on first-order kernel integral approximations, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Pengyuan Zhu , Ivor W. Tsang , Yueming Lyu

Despite the recent popularity of attention-based neural architectures in core AI fields like natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision (CV), their potential in modeling complex physical systems remains under-explored. Learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Yue Yu , Ning Liu , Fei Lu , Tian Gao , Siavash Jafarzadeh , Stewart Silling

We propose a deep learning approach for discovering kernels tailored to identifying clusters over sample data. Our neural network produces sample embeddings that are motivated by--and are at least as expressive as--spectral clustering. Our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Chieh Wu , Zulqarnain Khan , Yale Chang , Stratis Ioannidis , Jennifer Dy

We address binary classification using neural ordinary differential equations from the perspective of simultaneous control of $N$ data points. We consider a single-neuron architecture with parameters fixed as piecewise constant functions of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-18 Antonio Álvarez-López , Rafael Orive-Illera , Enrique Zuazua

Clustering is a widely used unsupervised learning technique involving an intensive discrete optimization problem. Associative Memory models or AMs are differentiable neural networks defining a recursive dynamical system, which have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Bishwajit Saha , Dmitry Krotov , Mohammed J. Zaki , Parikshit Ram

This paper presents CLUSTERFORMER, a universal vision model that is based on the CLUSTERing paradigm with TransFORMER. It comprises two novel designs: 1. recurrent cross-attention clustering, which reformulates the cross-attention mechanism…

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Coupled oscillators are being increasingly used as the basis of machine learning (ML) architectures, for instance in sequence modeling, graph representation learning and in physical neural networks that are used in analog ML devices. We…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Samuel Lanthaler , T. Konstantin Rusch , Siddhartha Mishra

While it is widely known that neural networks are universal approximators of continuous functions, a less known and perhaps more powerful result is that a neural network with a single hidden layer can approximate accurately any nonlinear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Lu Lu , Pengzhan Jin , George Em Karniadakis

An approach to improve neural network interpretability is via clusterability, i.e., splitting a model into disjoint clusters that can be studied independently. We define a measure for clusterability and show that pre-trained models form…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Satvik Golechha , Maheep Chaudhary , Joan Velja , Alessandro Abate , Nandi Schoots

Much recent work has addressed the solution of a family of partial differential equations by computing the inverse operator map between the input and solution space. Toward this end, we incorporate function-valued reproducing kernel Hilbert…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-05 Kaijun Bao , Xu Qian , Ziyuan Liu , Songhe Song

Operator learning has emerged as a powerful tool in scientific computing for approximating mappings between infinite-dimensional function spaces. A primary application of operator learning is the development of surrogate models for the…

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Neural operator architectures approximate operators between infinite-dimensional Banach spaces of functions. They are gaining increased attention in computational science and engineering, due to their potential both to accelerate…

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A new model called Clustering with Neural Network and Index (CNNI) is introduced. CNNI uses a Neural Network to cluster data points. Training of the Neural Network mimics supervised learning, with an internal clustering evaluation index…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Gangli Liu

We propose a model-based clustering algorithm for a general class of functional data for which the components could be curves or images. The random functional data realizations could be measured with error at discrete, and possibly random,…

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Positive definite operator-valued kernels generalize the well-known notion of reproducing kernels, and are naturally adapted to multi-output learning situations. This paper addresses the problem of learning a finite linear combination of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-06-15 Hachem Kadri , Alain Rakotomamonjy , Francis Bach , Philippe Preux

Fourier Neural Operators (FNOs) have emerged as leading surrogates for solver operators for various functional problems, yet their stability, generalization and frequency behavior lack a principled explanation. We present a systematic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Taeyoung Kim

This paper presents universal algorithms for clustering problems, including the widely studied $k$-median, $k$-means, and $k$-center objectives. The input is a metric space containing all potential client locations. The algorithm must…

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